SIMON GAECHTER simon.gaechter@nottingham.ac.uk
Professor, Psychology of Economic Decision Making
Measuring the closeness of relationships: a comprehensive evaluation of the 'Inclusion of the Other in the Self' scale
Gaechter, Simon; Starmer, Chris; Tufano, Fabio
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CHRIS STARMER chris.starmer@nottingham.ac.uk
Professor of Experimental Economics
Fabio Tufano
Abstract
Understanding the nature and influence of social relationships is of increasing interest to behavioral economists, and behavioral scientists more generally. In turn, this creates a need for tractable, and reliable, tools for measuring fundamental aspects of social relationships. We provide a comprehensive evaluation of the 'Inclusion of the Other in the Self' (IOS) Scale, a handy pictorial tool for measuring the subjectively perceived closeness of a relationship. The tool is highly portable, very easy for subjects to understand and takes less than 1 minute to administer. Across our three online studies with a diverse adult population (n=772) we show that six different scales designed to measure relationship closeness are all highly significantly positively correlated with the IOS Scale. We then conduct a Principal Component Analysis to construct an Index of Relationship Closeness and find that it correlates very strongly (?=.85) with the IOS Scale. We conclude that the IOS Scale is a psychologically meaningful and highly reliable measure of the subjective closeness of relationships.
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Gaechter, S., Starmer, C., & Tufano, F. (2015). Measuring the closeness of relationships: a comprehensive evaluation of the 'Inclusion of the Other in the Self' scale. PLoS ONE, 10(6), Article e0129478. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0129478
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | Jun 12, 2015 |
Deposit Date | Jun 17, 2015 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 29, 2024 |
Journal | PLoS ONE |
Electronic ISSN | 1932-6203 |
Publisher | Public Library of Science |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 10 |
Issue | 6 |
Article Number | e0129478 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0129478 |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/754571 |
Publisher URL | http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0129478 |
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